No passage Spainward from the Thames; well if arrestment do not suddenly come from the Thames! It was on this occasion, I suppose, that the passage in the open boat to St.Valery occurred;--speedy flight in what boat or boats, open or shut, could be got at Deal on the sudden.

Sterling himself, according to Hare's authority, actually went with them so far.

Enough, they got shipping, as private passengers in one craft or the other; and, by degrees or at once, arrived all at Gibraltar,--Boyd, one or two young democrats of Regent Street, the fifty picked Spaniards, and Torrijos,--safe, though without arms; still in the early part of the year..